Cloud services provider Interoute has announced the launch of a new virtual data centre (VDC) in Hong Kong, joining other vendors in setting up shop in the lucrative Asian region.

The company also announced that its customers can move data and apps across the entire services platform, across VDC zones, for no cost.

Lee Myall, the general manager of Interoute’s enterprise app store CloudStore, told CloudTech that while European expansion was still key, this was big news for Interoute on a global scale.

“It’s the beginning of us being able to make a global statement about our cloud computing platform”, Myall said, adding the company has a ‘unique’ proposition in Europe.

“There’s a good level of inter-European data sovereignty, but increasingly we have customers that have reach to PAC RIM and North America, and what this means is we can serve them better going forward,” he added …